10 FISHES AND FISHING IN SUNAPEE LAKE. 



of which is Morgan Pond, about 2| miles in direct line north of Twin 

 Lake. The brook flows almost directly east from Morgan Pond for a 

 short distance, thence turns and flows in an irregular course, but 

 generally southward. Morgan Pond, if it were not for coves, etc., 

 would be practically circular in shape, about three-tenths of a mile in 

 diameter. It is situated in the township of Springfield at an altitude 

 of 464 feet above Twin Lakes, or 1,681 feet above sea level. 



About 1.1 miles in a straight line up Morgan Brook there is a small 

 expansion into which flows a brook from the northwestward, at the 

 head of which is a small irregular triangular pond, about seven- 

 twentieths by four-twentieths of a mile in dimensions, the base of 

 which is at the eastward and the outlet of which leaves the northern 

 basal angle and flows a short distance northeastward before turning 

 to the south westward. In a straight line from Morgan Brook this 

 pond is about six-tenths of a mile distant. 



Twin Lakes discharges its water westward into Otter Pond. In a 

 distance of four-tenths of a mile from Twin Lakes the stream has a fall 

 of 49 feet, emptying into a small pond on an expansion of crescentic 

 shape approximately four-tenths of a mile long, following the curve, 

 and having an extreme width of one-tenth mile. In the remaining 

 distance of three-tenths of a mile in a direct line northwestward to 

 Otter Pond the fall is 43 feet. 



The small village of Otterville is situated near the expansion just 

 mentioned. 



Otter Pond, at an elevation of 1,125 feet above the level of the sea, 

 is situated two-tenths of a mile in a straight line from the extreme 

 head of Sunapee Lake at Georges Mills, following the course of the 

 outlet, which has a drop in that distance of 34 feet. The greatest 

 descent is, however, in a much shorter distance, i. e., from the dam at 

 Georges Mills. Otter Pond in its long axis extends 1.1 miles north- 

 west to southeast, and disregarding the outlet cove about midway of 

 its westward side is about one-half mile wide in the widest place. 

 Outlet Cove, extending approximately east and west, is about two- 

 tenths of a mile long. 



Near the entrance to the outlet cove in Otter Pond, in 18 feet of 

 water, the temperature at bottom was 64°, at surface 67°. 



A very small brook at Georges Mills enters the little dead water 

 into which Otter Brook flows a short distance northwestward of 

 Otter Brook. It was dry August 1, 1911. The temperature on the 

 same date at the mouth of Otter Brook was 67°. This small brook 

 is shown in Hancox's map as the outlet of Ledge Pond, but on the 

 United States Geological Survey topographical map the principal 

 outlet of the pond is Ledge Pond Brook, whose watei-s ultimately 

 reach Sugar River through the outlet of Long Pond not far above 

 Newport. On the same map, however, the previously mentioned 



